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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Danger Warning": Women Say Madison Cawthorn Harassed Them In College
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NEW: College classmates of Madison Cawthorn say he harassed women students. BuzzFeed News spoke with more than 30 people, who described and corroborated instances of sexual harassment and misconduct by the nowmember of Congress.
Danger Warning: Women Say Madison Cawthorn Harassed Them In College
BuzzFeed News interviewed more than three dozen people as part of an investigation into allegations that Madison Cawthorn harassed women in college.
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4:38 PM · Feb 26, 2021
BuzzFeed News
@BuzzFeedNews
NEW: College classmates of Madison Cawthorn say he harassed women students. BuzzFeed News spoke with more than 30 people, who described and corroborated instances of sexual harassment and misconduct by the nowmember of Congress.
Danger Warning: Women Say Madison Cawthorn Harassed Them In College
BuzzFeed News interviewed more than three dozen people as part of an investigation into allegations that Madison Cawthorn harassed women in college.
buzzfeednews.com
4:38 PM · Feb 26, 2021
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/addybaird/madison-cawthorn-sexual-misconduct-allegations-patrick?bftwnews&utm_term=4ldqpgc#4ldqpgc
Madison Cawthorn arrived at Patrick Henry Colleges small Christian campus in northern Virginia in fall 2016 blazing with charm, bravado, and a flashing white smile. His former classmates said the future member of Congress would whip his white Dodge Challenger into the parking lot and regale his classmates with the story of how he survived a harrowing car crash as a teen, which left him paralyzed from the waist down and in a wheelchair for life. After his intensive recovery, he was older than most students 21 and didnt fit the mold of the Christian and largely sheltered first-year students who chose the conservative school in Purcellville because of its commitment to God and rigorous academics. And, former Patrick Henry students said, it didnt take long for women on campus to start warning one another: You dont want to be alone with him, especially in his car.
BuzzFeed News spoke with more than three dozen people, including more than two dozen former students, their friends, and their relatives, who described or corroborated instances of sexual harassment and misconduct on campus, in Cawthorns car, and at his house near campus. Four women told BuzzFeed News that Cawthorn, now a rising Republican star, was aggressive, misogynistic, or predatory toward them. Their allegations include calling them derogatory names in public in front of their peers, including calling one woman slutty, asking them inappropriate questions about their sex lives, grabbing their thighs, forcing them to sit in his lap, and kissing and touching them without their consent. One of these women now works as an intern for another Republican member of Congress and passes Cawthorn in the corridors of the Capitol. According to more than a dozen people including three women who had firsthand experience and seven people who heard about these incidents from them at the time Cawthorn often used his car as a way to entrap and harass his women classmates, taking them on what he could call fun drives'' off campus. Two said he would drive recklessly and ask them about their virginity and sexual experiences while they were locked in the moving vehicle.
I realized he was taking me out to the middle of nowhere, Virginia, said Caitlin Coulter, a former classmate who went for a drive with him during her senior year. We were on these small, like, one- [or] two-lane back roads, and I just felt so uncomfortable and nervous and not even something I think at the time I could put a finger on, but just, like, danger warning.
BuzzFeed News sent Cawthorn a detailed list of allegations in this story. His communications director, Micah Bock, did not respond to the specific allegations but instead referred BuzzFeed News to remarks the young Republican had made during a campaign debate in September: I have never done anything sexually inappropriate in my life, Cawthorn said.
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"Danger Warning": Women Say Madison Cawthorn Harassed Them In College (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Feb 2021
OP
He's a sex predator despite being paralyzed from the waist down and in a wheelchair for life?
Marcuse
Feb 2021
#5
musette_sf
(10,200 posts)1. 🐷🐷🐷🐷🐷🐷🐷🐷🐷🐷🐷🐷🐷🐷🐷
OINK OINK OINK
Ilsa
(61,692 posts)2. This is the kind of rapist that drives a gal
out in the country and tells her to "put out" or he will leave her out in the middle of nowhere with the rattlesnakes, javelina, and scorpions.
Celerity
(43,279 posts)3. "I have never done anything sexually inappropriate in my life"
IcyPeas
(21,856 posts)4. watch.... they'll give him a "mulligan"
Marcuse
(7,475 posts)5. He's a sex predator despite being paralyzed from the waist down and in a wheelchair for life?
Nevilledog
(51,064 posts)9. Dude can walk very limitedly
tenderfoot
(8,425 posts)12. Uh... what?
Marcuse
(7,475 posts)14. He seems extremely vulnerable to self defense by his victims.
dv421
(170 posts)6. In this repup party
A story like this gets you promoted from bishop to cardinal.
Dagstead Bumwood
(3,621 posts)7. Republican? Move along, nothing to see here.
hatrack
(59,583 posts)8. Sexual harassment? If you're a Republican you can run someone down on the highway . . .
And get it knocked down to a couple of Class 2 misdemeanors.
Don't forget - IOKIYAR!!!
Ferrets are Cool
(21,105 posts)10. K and R
BobTheSubgenius
(11,562 posts)11. A GOP douche that is also a sexual predator?
Stop the presses!!! Must be the first one EVAH!
kairos12
(12,851 posts)13. Another predator. I've lost count.